Assessing strategies to achieve MDGs goals: Evidence from Senegal

François Cabral (), Anne-Sophie Robilliard, Fatou Cissé and Abdoulaye Diagne

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Abstract: Progress towards the MDGs is expected to slow as a consequence of the global economic downturn. This study applies an economy-wide framework to analyze the impact of the crisis on MDG achievement in six Latin American countries. It finds significant setbacks towards the goals and, in the case of the region's low-income countries, the cost of achieving these would rise between 1.6 and 3.4 per cent of GDP per year between 2010 and 2015 as compared with a no-crisis scenario. The additional public spending would contribute to economic growth though not sufficiently for full recovery to pre-crisis growth.

Keywords: computable general equilibrium models; distribution; welfare and poverty; foreign aid; macroeconomic analyses of economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 D3 F35 I3 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2011-07-08
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